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...early '60s: the Cleaverish white kids discovering their rebellious souls to the tune of Motown, the repressed Betty Crocker mom and authoritarian dad (with a sweet streak, of course) and - there's an FCC regulation requiring this, I think - the Kennedy assassination playing a major role. "Boomtown," a cop show set in LA -sorry, according to the trailer, "the phrase 'cop show' doesn't apply" - is an enigma so far. It has a strong cast (Donnie Wahlberg from "Band of Brothers," Mykelti Williamson, Jason Gedrick), but despite its claims of a novel approach to storytelling, the clips played pretty much...
...farmers' rut is a small one compared to that of manufacturing, the heart of the Japanese miracle. Yahaba, a town of 21,000 north of Tokyo, was once an electronics boomtown, home to an Aiwa compact-disc factory and six other manufacturers. In January, loss-making Aiwa shut down the plant - and all of its factories in Japan. "People working there, at first, said, oh, this won't affect us," says Genkichi Kon, who operated a snack shop inside the plant. "But gradually, one by one, people were restructured [translation: fired]." Two other factories have also closed. "People...
...lose the supposed thread of the album—“Heart of Gold” is no more obviously about women, or men, than, say, “I still haven’t found what I’m looking for.” The Boomtown Rats’ “I Don’t Like Mondays,” is an off-kilter pop song about a young girl who one day decides to shoot her classmates. But where the original gave perspectives from both sides of the gun, Amos entirely assumes the identity...
...This was Guangzhou's finest, grade A public hospital when it was built 40 years ago. Now, it is one of hundreds of private and state-owned clinics stretching from the boomtown of Shenzhen to the ancient city of Guangzhou that perform tens of thousands of abortions every year. They draw pregnant women from across China, and beyond. "Women come from Hong Kong for treatment all the time," says a tired gynecologist at the Guangzhou Area People's Hospital. "They even fly in from Beijing, Singapore and Macau...
...music's pervasive misogyny by animating men's songs from a woman's perspective. Amos says she invented and "befriended" a dozen different women (she has taken publicity photos dressed as all of them), through whom she sings tracks by the Velvet Underground, Neil Young, the Beatles, the Boomtown Rats and more. But it's the Eminem track that will get people talking. "Eminem represents so much right now to a whole group of people. And he's a great poet. But when you kill your wife, you don't get to control whom she becomes friends with when...